News & Articles

100k Baby Corals Delivered to Help the Great Barrier Reef

New technology like the AutoSpawner is helping boost the number of coral larvae produced for the trials, reducing reliance on human handling and labour and improving efficiencies

Jan 05, 2024
Offshore Crane Contract Awarded to Techano Oceanlift

The company will supply two 150 ton capacity knuckle boom crane is equipped with an active heave compensated winch with 3000 meter wire for subsea construction operations

Jan 04, 2024
Solution for Seamless Oil to Water Transition Launched

The EvoTube is a significantly simplified system based on a conventional stern tube system, facilitating future conversion from oil to water lubrication systems

Jan 03, 2024
Innovation Helps Accelerate the Shift to Renewable Energy

Ørsted has worked with universities on research, including using fish migration patterns to estimate future location of seabirds and mammals to avoid potential conflict with wind farms

Jan 02, 2024
The Effect of Marine Heatwaves on Corals

The NOAA- led report shows that this year, many Caribbean reefs experienced historically high heat stress that started much earlier and was sustained for much longer than normal

Dec 29, 2023
Partnership Embarks on LiDAR Assisted Control Initiative for Offshore Wind

ZX and sowento’s scope will cover a range of turbine segments like onshore, offshore, floating turbine systems, all of differing rotor sizes

Dec 28, 2023
Mapping the World’s Strongest Current

The area of the Southern Ocean surveyed in high-res, 3D detail stretches over 20,000 square km down through layers of swirling currents to the seafloor 4000m below

Dec 27, 2023
Stabilized Landings for Autonomous Maritime Drones

STABLE has been awarded funds to design a stabilized platform for autonomous offshore wind service drones, based on traditional heave compensation systems for offshore cranes

Dec 22, 2023
Project ReCon Celebrates One-Year Milestone

Satlink’s Project Recon aims to give a second life to echosounder buoys used in tropical purse seine tuna fishing, with the participation of over 100 vessels and 22 tuna fishing companies

Dec 20, 2023
Successful Factory Tests for DEME’s Innovative Fall Pipe ROV

A notable innovation of the newly developed Fall Pipe ROV is the integrated rotator, allowing for the offsetting of the ROV’s heading relative to the vessel heading

Dec 20, 2023
Combined Side Scan Sonar & Sub-Bottom Profiling System Upgraded

EdgeTech’s 2050-DSS is ideal for applications such as cable and pipeline surveys, marine construction surveys, pre and post dredging surveys and more

Dec 19, 2023
The Effect of COVID-19 on Global Maritime Traffic

Researchers used satellite and nightlight data to investigate vessel activity from a global to a local scale across major fishing areas, exclusive economic zones, and marine protected areas

Dec 18, 2023
Offshore Wind Experience Hub Launched

The Hub is designed to raise public awareness of and provide education about the necessity, science, and benefits of the U.S. offshore wind renewable energy industry

Dec 18, 2023
Hydrogen-Powered Tugboat Ready for Operation

The Hydrotug 1 uses clean fuels, resulting in an overall reduction of 65% of traditional fuel consumption and associated emissions in the tugboat’s overall cycle

Dec 15, 2023
Energy Company Contracts IMR and Survey Work

Oceaneering International will carry out IMR and survey work scopes that include the provision of ROVs, survey personnel and equipment, subsea inspection, and much more

Dec 15, 2023
High-Res, Live Subsea 3D Modelling & Inspection at 6,000m

Vaarst’s SubSLAM X2 technology enables complete, accurate subsea data capture and intelligence for faster and easier decision making

Dec 14, 2023
Can a Computer Learn to Sail using AI? 

MARIN has released videos detailing its progress in researching whether a computer equipped with AI can learn to sail an Optimist as intuitively as a child

Dec 14, 2023
Deep Sea Sensor Reveals Corals Produce Superoxide

A new study reveals that deep-sea corals and sponges do produce the ROS superoxide, having a string of previously unknown effects on ocean life and chemistry in the deep sea

Dec 13, 2023
Accelerating the Green Energy Transition

Following many years of consistent innovation and technological progress, solar, wind, batteries, and electric vehicles are now cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives

Dec 13, 2023